Devils Food Cake

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 35 mins

Ingredients

• 2 1/4 cups cake flour
• 3/4 cup dutch-processed cocoa powder
• 2 1/4 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 12 tablespoons unsalted butter, very soft
• 1 3/4 cups buttermilk
• 4 large eggs

Recipe

• 1 set oven rack at the middle level of the oven and preheat to 375 degrees.
• 2 for two 10-inch round cake pans, 2 inches deep, butter bottom and sides.
• 3 and line the bottom of the pan with a circle of parchment paper. doing the.
• 4 same for one 14-inch round cake pan.
• 5 for the cake batter, sift the dry ingredients into a mixer bowl (flour,.
• 6 sugar, cocoa powder, salt, baking powder and baking soda) and add the.
• 7 butter. mix for 2 minutes on low speed. add half of the buttermilk and.
• 8 continue mixing 5 minutes longer. scrape bowl and beaters, mix remaining.
• 9 buttermilk with the eggs, and add a third of at a time to the batter,.
• 10 stopping and scraping between each addition.
• 11 divide batter between prepared pans (for 10-inch pans), or put all of the.
• 12 batter into the 14-inch pan bake for 30 minutes, until layers are well risen.
• 13 and firm. the 14-inch pan will take a little longer start checking at 35.
• 14 minutes.
• 15 place pan on cooling rack for 10 minutes, and then un mold onto the rack,.
• 16 cool right side up on the rack.
• 17 let the cake sit for a day before you ice or frost.
• 18 it freezes very well. wrap in saran wrap and then foil. to defrost: leave.
• 19 in wrappings until defrosted, then unwrap. i generally will defrost.
• 20 partially, then torte the cake and allow it to continue defrosting. it cuts better.
• 21 storage: keep under a cake dome or well wrapped at room temperature, unless.
• 22 you have a frosting that needs to be refrigerated.